Background

The use of simulation-based education (SBE) in pharmacy education can help students acquire the essential clinical knowledge and skills for practice and can enhance patients' safety. Simulation-based training has been implemented in inter-professional education training, introductory pharmacy practice experiences, pharmacy residency training. Still, there is limited information in the literature that assesses the use of simulation in advanced pharmacy practice experience (APPE).

Objective

To evaluate the impact of integrating SBE into APPE on students' learning outcomes, training costs, and satisfaction.

Method

This study presents a new training model of a 5-week clerkship experience where sixth-year pharmacy students alternate between hospital wards and simulation rooms. Student assessment rubrics were used to measure students’ achievements and report faculty feedback. Students filled scenario evaluation forms to assess their simulation satisfaction rate.

Results

A total of 57 students completed a full block of simulation-based, followed by hospital-based blocks practicing in the same medical specialty in both blocks. This newly structured experience provided fourteen direct patient care training seats per rotation and saved around 25,000 Saudi Riyals per rotation. The mean grades in both simulation and hospital-based blocks were mostly above 90% in all learning outcomes. Cognitive skills and affect learning outcomes mean grades were higher in the simulation-based group—most of the students being satisfied with the simulation scenarios.

Conclusion

SBE integration into APPE can supplement hospital-based experiential training to achieve the best learning outcomes with improved students' satisfaction.

中文翻译：

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将模拟融入高级药学实践经验课程：一种创新的培训方法。

背景

在药学教育中使用基于模拟的教育（SBE）可以帮助学生获得必要的临床知识和实践技能，并可以提高患者的安全性。模拟培训已在跨专业教育培训、介绍药学实践经验、药学住院医师培训中实施。尽管如此，评估模拟在高级药学实践经验 (APPE) 中的使用的文献信息仍然有限。

客观的

评估将 SBE 集成到 APPE 中对学生学习成果、培训成本和满意度的影响。

方法

本研究提出了一种为期 5 周的实习经历的新培训模式，其中六年级药学学生在医院病房和模拟室之间交替。学生评估标准用于衡量学生的成绩并报告教师反馈。学生填写情景评估表以评估他们的模拟满意度。

结果

共有 57 名学生完成了完整的模拟模块，然后是医院模块，在两个模块的同一医学专业中练习。这种新结构的体验每次轮换提供 14 个直接患者护理培训座位，每次轮换节省约 25,000 沙特里亚尔。在所有学习成果中，模拟模块和医院模块的平均成绩大多高于 90%。认知技能和影响学习成果意味着模拟组的成绩更高——大多数学生对模拟场景感到满意。

结论

SBE 与 APPE 的整合可以补充以医院为基础的体验式培训，以实现最佳学习成果并提高学生的满意度。